Dawn Theme: Hover drop-down list disappears over the clickable image banner

Topic summary

A technical issue occurs in Shopify’s Dawn theme where hover dropdown menus disappear when the cursor moves over a clickable image banner or slideshow positioned below the navigation.

Root Cause:
The banner appears to have higher z-index priority than the dropdown menu, causing the menu to hide behind it.

Proposed Solutions:

  1. CSS Fix (suyash1): Add #shopify-section-header { z-index: 1000; } to the end of base.css file. Includes screenshot showing successful hover over “cats” menu.

  2. Liquid File Edit (LitCommerce): Modify code in slideshow.liquid file with specific markup changes (screenshot provided).

Ongoing Issues:

  • AcedCorpLLC confirms the CSS solution works and also fixes related clickable slideshow link conflicts
  • intinnovations reports the fix doesn’t work in their case
  • Klipoorbellennl experiences partial success with Dawn 13.0: the fix works only on first page refresh, then menu disappears again

Status: Unresolved for some users, particularly on Dawn 13.0 where the solution appears temporary.

Summarized with AI on November 12. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.

Hi, i have the same problem in dawn 13.0 could you help me? The code is not working?